2023-06-19 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2023-06-19 Emacs news

• Emacs 29.0.92 pretest is available
• Upcoming events:
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Jun 21 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • m-x-erlangen (in person): Introduction to Emacs and Emacs Lisp https://www.freelists.org/post/m-x-erlangen/New-Talk-Introduction-to-Emacs-and-Emacs-Lisp - June 22 6:30pm in Erlangen, Germany
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Jun 23 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 1900 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Jun 24 0030 Asia/Kolkata - 0300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Jun 24 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sat Jun 24 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sun Jun 25 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jun 28 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jun 29 0030 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Setting up emacs re-re-dux (Irreal)
  • Zachary Kanfer: Don't make Emacs keymaps – define them. (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Crafted Emacs V2 Beta — Bowmansarrow
  • Elpaca: Harnessing the power of an advanced Emacs package manager (14:21)
  • Devil key translator v0.5.0 released: improved special key execution, devil-describe-key, etc. (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Use walk-windows to iterate over live windows
• Appearance:
  • The Golden Ratio Package in Emacs: Perfect Window Resizing (Reddit)
  • All-the-icons SVG beta
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: introduction to the ef-themes "Elea" variants
  • 21 of the Finest Emacs Themes + My Current Favorite (02:59)
• Navigation:
  • [ANN] buffer-name-relative for project relative buffer names now on melpa (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Counting time, backwards
  • Alvaro Ramirez: noweb: the lesser known org babel glue (Reddit)
  • Org-mode - Select and Exclude tags awesomeness (06:41)
  • Amy Grinn / boxy-kanban · GitLab
  • Take Screenshots Straight into Org Files in Emacs on Win10
  • Khalorg: an interface between org mode and khal cli calendar
  • A working org-protocol capture extension (Firefox only)
  • Org development:
    • ox-icalendar: Add support for unscheduled and repeating TODOs
• Completion:
  • Manuel Uberti: Tweaking Consult completion
  • Concealing Star Buffers with Consult
  • Highlight multiple lines in consult-line
• Coding:
  • James Dyer: Revert Git Permission Changes On Repository Transfer
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Ement.el: v0.10 released (a Matrix client for Emacs) (includes a minor security fix)
  • Update on Atom backend for Gnus (nnatom) - people are working on including this in Emacs
• Evil mode:
  • Switching Gears in Emacs: A Guide to Evil Mode (10:38)
• Multimedia:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Emacs Subed mode can now display waveforms
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Post blackout - should we consider Reddit alternatives?
  • Alternatives to reddit and r/emacs to stay updated on Emacs developments
  • Issue 004 - System Crafters - call for community projects, define-keymap, etc.
  • Eric MacAdie: 2023-06 Austin Emacs Meetup
  • Andrey Listopadov: The key point of Emacs
  • An Ode to Emacs. The Greatest Operating System
  • Emacs is perfect, but only if you understand it (10:00, Reddit)
  • The Ultimate Open Source Gem: Why Emacs Reigns Supreme (03:40)
• Other:
  • XEmacs: XEmacs 21.5.35 "kohlrabi" is released
  • Way to make Emacs feel smoother?
  • Emacs From Scratch, An Emacs tutorial for beginners – 14 Editing Modes, … (Reddit)
  • whatacold: Join Lines By A Separator in Emacs
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: Reasons for the Android port of Emacs, limitations of Emacs in Termux, summary of Android discussion so far
  • * doc/lispref/streams.texi (Output Variables): Document `pp-default-function`
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Backward compatibility with 'doc-view-svg-face'.
• New packages:
  • babashka: Babashka Tasks Interface (MELPA)
  • compile-multi-all-the-icons: Affixate `compile-multi' with icons (MELPA)
  • consult-compile-multi: Consulting read support for `compile-multi' (MELPA)
  • docsim: Search and compare notes with a local search engine (MELPA)
  • gpr-ts-mode: Tree-sitter support for GNAT project (MELPA)
  • helm-project: Helm source for project management (MELPA)
  • noir-mode: Description (MELPA)
  • ob-lesim: Org-babel functions for lesim-mode (MELPA)
  • persist-state: Regularly persist bookmarks, history, recent files and more (MELPA)
  • sourcepawn-mode: SourcePawn major mode (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, kbin, lemmy, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file, Emacs Calendar, and emacs-devel. Thanks to Andrés Ramírez for emacs-devel links. Do you have an Emacs-related link or announcement? Please e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com. Thank you!

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